Lövstabruk Church, Religious complex in Tierp Municipality, Sweden.
Lövstabruk Church stands on Västra gatan in Lövstabruk, its yellow-rendered brick walls forming a single-nave hall church with the chancel to the north. Two entrances, in the south gable and the east long wall, are matched by tall round-arched windows with small leaded panes. A low square sacristy with a hipped roof adjoins the north wall.
The church was built in 1727 as the community center for a growing industrial settlement based on ironworks. It was closely linked to the metal production industry that formed the backbone of local economic life at that time.
The church is still the parish church of Hållnäs-Österlövsta, and its name comes from the ironworks village of Lövstabruk. The pulpit is framed by painted drapery, and the closed pews and wooden mirror vault shape how services are held. The 1728 Cahman organ is played in worship and at concerts.
The church stands on Västra gatan, with its two entrances in the middle of the south gable and the middle of the east long wall. The chancel lies to the north and the low, square sacristy adjoins the north wall. The brick floor and the closed pews are original, and the Cahman organ stands on the gallery above the south entrance.
The 1728 organ by Johan Niclas Cahman, Sweden's largest Baroque pipe organ of its kind, was restored in 2006 by Mats Arvidsson, who removed later additions and reinstated the original bellows; it was reinaugurated by Archbishop emeritus Gunnar Weman.
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